More than thirty Organizations signed a directed letter to the president Luis Abinaderin which they express their worry for the approval in the Congress of the New Criminal Code that, according to the signatories, “contradicts your government policy and threatens a regression in terms of Human Rights“
In the missivereleased this Friday, ask the president to be sent to him, observe it and return the legislative body for their revisionrecommending that the Articles 377, 141, 124, paragraph IV; those from 109 to 112 and 173established in the project.
In the document details every aspect they understand must be considered, starting with the article on the espionage (377), in which they point out that “the inaccuracy and ambiguity of the article, even when establishing the concepts of confidentiality and fundamental interests of the nation, it can open political persecution against journalists and defenders U Organizations of Human Rights that are dedicated to research with cooperation support or international organizations. “
Sexual abuse and violence
About the prescription of sexual assaultincestuous sexual assault, rape and incestuous sexual rape against adults (article 141), argue that “sexual violation, sexual assault and any sexual abuse that constitute various forms of sexual violence, when the victim or survivor is an adult person, has been subject to 20 -year prescription periods“, which seems” transgresses the Principle of progressivitysince its imprescriptibility is provided for in our current regulations. “
They also emphasize that the criminal type of sexual activity not consented in the relationship is excluded from the period of prescription, while establishing less serious penalties, ignoring that “violation is rape “ In any circumstance, and “minimizing this deplorable conduct” when the couple commits it, as noted in article 138.
In the letter they also address the Violence against children and adolescents In corporal or physical punishmentsnot even “mild”, nor in other forms of Cruel or degrading punishment.
The causes
On sexual and reproductive rights (articles 109–112), they affirm that the Absolute penalty Without exceptions constitutes a “serious violation of human rights of women, girls and adolescents, such as rights to life, health, equality and not discriminationto personal integrity, to the prohibition of torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, to a life free of violence, personal freedom and reproductive autonomy. “
“The project aims to criminalize Doctors, nurses, pharmacistsmidwives and support personnel with a exempted subject to that all the scientific and technical means are exhausted at the time of the fact to save one life, or the other, or both, and that does not guarantee certainty or legal certainty Health professionals, “they say.
Discrimination
The Organizations indicate in their letter that the discrimination established in the (article 173) “explicitly excludes from the criminal protection against the discrimination to people traditionally vulnerabilized by their Sexual orientation and gender identity“
- They point out that the project includes paragraphs II and III that, according to them, “would leave without effect the criminal type of discriminationleaving the same people who say they protect, historically marginalized groups“
Christian Alliance of RD, Catholics for the right to decide, Center for Gender Studies (CEG/INTEC), Solidarity Center for the Development of Women (CE-MUJER), Center Hostos of Constitutional Studies, Integral Center for Local Development (Cidel), Circle of Women with Disability (Cimudis), Research Center for Women Alternative.
In addition, the National Confederation of Trade Union Unity (CNUS), coalition of social, popular and feminist organizations of the 14 provinces of Cibao, coalition for the Social Security Digna, National Confederation of Women of the Campo (Conamuca), Coordinator of Women of the Cibao, Committee for the Defense of Neighborhood Rights (Copadeba), Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Flacso) of women Dominican journalists.
The Magaly Pineda Feminist Forum, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), Mama Tingó Women’s Board, Movement of Women Mom Tingo, Feminist Movement Sisters Mirabal, women in Dominican Development (Mude), Core of Support for Women (NAM), citizen participation, Profamilia Board of Directors, Profamilia Board of Directors, union of workers’ union at home (Sirasecd), syndicate, syndicate, syndicate, syndicate, syndicate, syndicate. National of Health Technicians and Workers (Sinatesa), South Feminist Tertulia and Women’s Democratic Union (UDEMU)
